Lucretius

From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”).

Lucretius

1. A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.
2. Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher.

• Lucret
• Lucretian

• Lucretia

• “Lucretius”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Possibly from lucrum (“profit”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫʊˈkreː.ti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luˈkrɛt̪.t̪͡s̪i.us]

Lucrētius m sg (genitive Lucrētiī or Lucrētī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet
   2. Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus a Roman consul

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Lucrētia

• “Lucretius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lucretius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.